There’s an old British expression, “a curate’s egg.” The story goes that a couple once hosted their vicar for dinner and served him an egg, not realizing that it wasn’t very fresh. When they asked him ...

[The following is an English version of the original Yiddish article, which you can read here.] Rabbi Mayer Moskowitz, a beloved longtime educator at the Ramaz School in New York and the ...

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